Leadership is what is required to get New Zealanders to buy into a growth economy and higher real incomes for all, the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

The room was small and dark with the exception of a small light bulb dangling over the head of an older petite Persian woman. “Your husband has recanted his faith, do you recant yours?” asked the Persian officer. Her dark eyes reflected strength and courage as the officer loomed over her, urging her to renounce [...]

It's Murphy's Law. Just when you want to look your holiday best -- when you're traveling to visit relatives, old friends and maybe even future in-laws -- is when your beauty routine is most out of sorts. Not to worry: With some planning, you can still look fabulous on the fly. Here are tips to try when you and your beauty routine forge out into the wild blue yonder, leaving your bathroom mirror ...

TORONTO - When David Holland stepped into the role as interim head of Torstar Corp. (TSX:TS.B) earlier this year, he shouldered the task of steering a media empire that was in the midst of reworking its operations while caught in an economic downturn.

Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Dawn limped into San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday after a power failure that briefly left it dead in the water. ...

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From hunting in the Amazon to drumming at a powwow, explorers, travel writers and tour operators remember their favourite travel moments Oyotuniji African Village, South Carolina, USA Alan Whicker, travel TV presenter I'd been doing a recce in South Carolina, and was on my way to Florida to film in Palm Beach, that most frivolous of party towns. I'd heard rumours that in Beaufort, a couple of ...

From Manhattan's skyline to volcanic lakes, explorers, travel writers and tour operators remember their favourite travel moments Sahara sunset, Niger Jonny Bealby, founder of adventure operator Wild Frontiers When you've had 20 years of adventures, packed with all manner of experiences, picking just one is not easy. Savouring a whisky in a dilapidated bar on the Angolan-Namibian border after ...

Let’s start with your career path. You worked at Microsoft before becoming a full-time entrepreneur. What drove you to make that change and what are the main differences between now and your corporate life back then?

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A new report on parenting warns that men face a struggle to spend quality time with their children The next 10 years is going to be a period of radical change for Britain's fathers, according to a major report that predicts more and more men will be living apart from their children and struggling to spend time with them. For men already trying to cope with family lives dramatically different ...

Most of the prescription offered by the 2025 task force for catching up with Australia is "too radical" for the government to pick up, says Finance Minister Bill English.

In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis project, Ian Clarke created "a Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval ...

FOR Chinese Singaporeans who had struggled with their mother tongue in school, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's recent remarks that bilingual education had proceeded on the wrong assumptions for 30 years were a breath of fresh air.

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MOSCOW, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Russia on Sunday published its proposal for a new Euro-Atlantic security treaty that would restrict its ability to use military force unilaterally if the United States and its European allies agreed to do the same.

THANKSGIVING, the quintessential American holiday, was created by immigrants. While everyone associates the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims, that is not historically correct. read more

When I was staying in a pension in Seoul for a month in the autumn of 1967, I tried to speak some Japanese, our only common language, with its 80-year-old Korean proprietor. He refused outright until about a week into my stay, when he gave in and said, "I haven't spoken Japanese since the war and I vowed never to do so again. But you're not a Japanese, so I guess it's all right." From then on we ...

In conjunction with World AIDS Day on Dec 1, individuals involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Malaysia remind that the war still needs to be fought on all fronts.

Led by a deep research base at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh is a virtual mecca of language technology. The region is home to 20 or more companies, mainly spun out of CMU, that employ computer technology to unravel babel.

Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin testifies before the Commons Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan on Parliament Hill in Ottawa November 18, 2009